The FREE FPS game you've never heard of...

Hired Ops in 2024. I was looking for some free FPS games on Steam and found this.

Overdrive - Hampus Naeselius

0:00 Intro
2:07 Gun Game
11:01 Tactical Conquest
21:15 Team Deathmatch

[HandlerYT]

Let me know if there are any other random FPS games you'd like me to try!

[brkinwrx]

this is the game nikita was working oon before tarkov. Bear and USEC, same sights, similar voicelines, even the container map is in arena.

[romulanphantom]

I played the original Contract Wars back on Kongregate back in 2012 before Kongregate stopped supporting Unity games and it was available on its own website. Years later the same devs came out with Hired Ops which was not free at the time but hosted a wide range of quality of life improvements and the new lean mechanic. Fun fact for anyone still reading: the snipers have no bloom so if you know where the center pixel of your screen is or if you have a monitor crosshair you can use them like guaranteed one shot shotguns or just no scope snipe across the largest maps, some of which are huge.

[volff]

We use to play Contract Wars on our web browser,

I miss the sound of storm kills, pro kills, and legendary kills

[Ace]

Real online fps og's remember Contract wars, same people btw.

[CorruptControl]

The top bar on your screen was showing what weapon you were on. It was also showing where other people were in their progress. When you were onto the knife, that’s when you needed to melee. When you were trying to melee you were still on pistol kills which is why you didn’t win.

[CyanJay]

I know this is probaby an "obscure one". But i remember in my childhood playing an FPS called "Red crucible 2"

It was probably my favorite at that time.

[filthydpsmain]

Used to play the predecessor to this game called Contract Wars. It was a browser based shooter that was developed by Absolute Soft, which was the original team/ studio before some of them broke off to form Battlestate Games & come to create EFT. Kinda sad to see how far the game has fallen off, yet I'm not surprised. Was not expecting to see Handler even touch or know of this game.

[professorclup]

Hours of grinding Contract Wars, still reminds me of my childhood.

[itsProRookie]

Thank you for using your platform to bring this game to light! I’m tired of people tunnel visioned on cod. And these games die from lack of players and they’re very good with a lot of content! Another game would be ironsight! Devs are still updating it and it only has 400 concurrent players. They’re very dedicated but my only issue is the servers can be wonky.

[DSHK]

This game will feel familiar to those of you who have played EFT before because this is essentially a steam port of Tarkov's predecessor Contract Wars (which I played way too much of as a teenager).

[CmanGrunt]

I'd die happy seeing Handler try Team Fortress 2. One of the first class based fps games and still one of the most active on Steam.

[RiiKe.SC.]

Handler, to a game that I played a lot at launch, and I will be very happy to see you play (Black Squad) a hug from 🇧🇷

[yungmonsterxs]

Played this game a couple years back and it's good to see you enjoying it.

[AmiciCherno]

The entirety of the original team created "contract wars" a unity-based web browser game, and after they finished working on that, they both had different design philosophies for the next game they wanted to make, so they split into two groups, one called "Battlestate games" and the other called Absolutsoft. Battlestate games went on to make Escape From Tarkov, while Absolutsoft went on to create Hired Ops, although both games kept within the same created universe/lore.

[vroomvroom]

u got to look at your UI it was really obvious how to win the gun game lol like when you're on the knife you knife someone and you just have to look at the top of your screen to see which gun youre on and when you're low on hp you can heal with C there's no regen in this game only armor and health and there's other class objectives like quests/contracts to unlock weapons other than the ones you can unlock normally everything is really fun and simple about this game and it needs more players to get the devs to work on it more like improving the knifing system to allow you to knife while sprinting other than that it's really nice to see you play this game i love it and want more people to play it and for the devs to improve it a lot and add more game modes and cosmetics and guns and improve the in-game currency this game is really good for the time it came out and for right now too

[diego_chang]

I guess the king of "obscure fps" would be Ironsight, which was the og Cod competitor before XDefiant.

You could give that game a try and see how it plays!

[Mr_Bear]

Great game played it for a full year but the daily login bonus for weapons breaks after 300 days so I never got my promised G3. Plus the only other way to get good guns beyond you get by leveling up is a massive grind as you need 3+ people in your squad to gain progress towards a clan task.

[arkelios_tdk]

You played it already, but gotta love seeing you do some ironsight with the boys.

[vroomvroom]

pls do more vids on this game i love hired ops if not play ironsight or warface
classic f2p fps games that are always gonna be good and need players and dev support